As the historical capital of Upper Lusatia, Bautzen is convincing, because especially the old town is full of stories due to wars, city fires, royal parades, or criminal courts.
1000 years of city history promise a lot of anecdotes and legends, which you can learn about during a city tour. The city tours in Bautzen take place daily: Into the Bautzen underground, on the towers of the city or in the middle of the historical everyday life of cloth merchants, towers, city captains or wizards. Let yourself be enchanted by 1000 years of history.
The beautiful Upper Lusatia with a huge network of hiking and biking trails and a variety of recreational facilities will also please you. The Bautzen dam also invites you to relax or visit the dinosaur park in Kleinwelka. Not far from Dresden and Görlitz, from the Lusatian Lakeland, the Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape and the Upper Lusatian Mountains stretches this beautiful region. Trips to our neighboring countries Czech Republic and Poland are very popular.
Today, the Bautzen Memorial is located in the building of the former "Stasi Prison" Bautzen II. Here, the victims of the two Bautzen prisons are remembered. Political opponents were imprisoned under inhumane conditions in the Bautzen I and II prisons during the "Third Reich", the Soviet occupation period and the SED dictatorship.
Source: www.stsg.de
1000 steps through 1000 years of Bautzen - tour through the historic old town - along the old city walls, duration approx. 1.5 hours, starts from Tourist Information, meeting point “Hauptmarkt” (public without registration).
In and around Bautzen/Budyšin Easter is closely connected with the culture and customs of the Sorbs. Hardly anywhere else are Christian and secular customs lived together as in the popularly called Easter capital Bautzen. The interplay of German and Sorbs, they are a Slavic minority who have lovingly cultivated their own language, culture and colorful customs for centuries is unique in our city.
Every year the city looks forward to thousands of visitors. Devotions, church concerts, Easter markets, city tours, exhibitions, theater performances and the highlights, the Easter Rides processions.
The Sorbian Easter Rides in Bautzen and also in the surrounding communities, is today an extremely important religious and national event for the Sorbs.
Germany's largest maze as well as life-size dinosaurs, primeval adventure park and miniature park:
Bautzen - the oldest Christmas market in Germany
As various chronicles report, in 1384 King Wenceslas IV granted the town of Budissin the right to hold a free meat market. From St. Michael's Day on Sundays, every butcher was allowed to sell his meat publicly at the market. The butchers had the right of this meat sale until Christmas.
In 1402 all previous markets in the town were put under special protection by a decree of King Wenceslas IV and further markets were forbidden. This decree was confirmed in 1505 by King Vladislaus with a document and with it the free meat market, as it was held in Budissin "since ancient times for more than a hundred years and far beyond people's memory". This also speaks for the year 1384.
